"This kind of determination and broadmindedness are indeed not something ordinary people can have. Has he seen your identity?" Rum asked.

Ishihara Aki thought for a moment and then said: "Probably not."

Rum nodded, and after a while he said: "You just said that the danger to us from the Kitahara Group lies in the people around Kitahara Sosuke. This statement is wrong. A person can make all kinds of capable people work for him.

, It is a very powerful ability in itself. That person... I always feel that he is a threat to the organization, but it is a pity that the boss does not have the same opinion as me."

Ishihara Aki remained silent.

The differences between the organization leader and the organization's second-in-command are not something she can comment on, but Ishihara Aki also understands the contradiction between the two of them. The boss is devoted to research and does not want the organization to be noticed by anyone at all, because the organization

Huge assets, profound heritage, extensive connections, and countless outstanding subordinates are all the cornerstone of the boss's structure in order to conduct research smoothly.

Many people in the organization think that the boss is sinister and cold-blooded. In fact, it is because he is not very interested in other things besides research. He can easily give up anything in order to achieve the ultimate goal. In the eyes of people who don’t know better, it will naturally be interpreted.

Very unpredictable and terrifying.

As a close confidant of the boss and the person in charge of many actual businesses, Rum is radical in doing things and has a quick temper. He causes big scenes from time to time. The black organization will now be targeted by the intelligence agencies of various countries, and Rum will bear a lot of responsibility.

He was largely responsible for this, so he was scolded several times by the leader of the organization for this.

However, although there are some differences between the two, the boss still trusts Rum as always, and Rum has been loyal to the organization for decades. So it is good to listen to such complaints, and Ishihara Aki has never had it.

Take it seriously.

When the road under the mountain was finally cleared, the truck also drove to the small village called Daoxiang Village.

Rum leaned against the window and saw two villagers standing on the roadside from a distance, holding hands and looking at them.

There are about seven or eight people in the farmland further away. Some are sitting under the trees and resting, some are pulling carts, some are bending down to weed, and some are leaning together and laughing.

Rum frowned and said, "I thought there were very few people in this village."

"There are very few." Aki Ishihara looked at the car and said, "Those you see are not people."

Not a human?

Rum was a little confused at first, but soon noticed that all the people were motionless. When the truck drove nearby, he realized that they were all dummies, but because they were all wearing different clothes, wearing straw hats or turbans,

So from a distance, it's almost impossible to tell the difference between real and fake.

"It's so weird and disgusting." Rum commented coldly.

Ishihara Aki said: "I heard that it is because most people have left, and in order to prevent the village from looking too lifeless, the villagers who are still here made these scarecrows to make them look more lively."

Rum:...Isn't this becoming more like a ghost land?

The scarecrows that appeared on the roadside had pale or yellow faces, red lips, and weird fingers. Some had their mouths open and laughed, and some had their mouths flat and frowned. It seemed that each scarecrow had a different personality and life.

It looks creepy.

Several villagers heard the sound of vehicles, came out of their homes, and looked at them hesitantly. Rum squinted his one eye and looked at them for several seconds before confirming that they were all alive.

"You don't need to enter the village, the car will be parked here, and we will leave when the crowd disperses," Rum said.

He didn't want to admit it, but he did find this village very strange.

Hmm...a little scary.

If he didn't want to attract attention, he would really like to burn this damn place down.

Ishihara Aki got out of the car and went to negotiate with the villagers. They knew that this girl was the new maid in the Twilight Pavilion, and their expressions relaxed a lot after seeing her. The two parties talked for a while, and Ishihara Aki paid a sum of money, and soon they

A consensus was reached.

Trucks parked quietly on the side of the road one after another, and people in black stood guard around the trucks, guarding against allowing anyone to approach. Of course, the people who had lived in this isolated village for a long time were somewhat exclusive, except for a few

Except for a small child, no one tried to approach the truck and talk to them.

Ten minutes later, the curious children also left. The roads in the village soon became deserted, with only dozens of scarecrows watching them from far and near.

Some smile.

Some laughed.

Some had angry faces.

Some whispered.

Perhaps due to the weather, the expressions of those scarecrows were somewhat deformed. Being stared at by dozens of pairs of eyes, even though the people in black were well-trained, they felt uncomfortable all over, and subconsciously avoided those

The scarecrow's gaze.

In the distance, a wisp of gray-black smoke slowly rose.

……………………

The sound of a car horn came from not far away.

Kitahara Sosuke locked the door to prevent anyone from running in and being burned together. Then he jumped out of the window at the back of the castle and landed firmly on the ground. He stood up and took off his stained gloves while walking in.

forest.

I just walked around his Twilight House and found that not only was the exterior wall sprayed with gasoline, but some flammable materials were also placed inside the room.

The intention of the black organization in doing this is obvious - after all, the crows have left a lot of traces here. No matter how carefully they clean up, there is no guarantee that they will not leave some fingerprints, dander, hair and the like. Just to be on the safe side.

, naturally it is better to burn it.

Thinking of the ubiquitous surveillance in the castle, Kitahara Sosuke smiled, feeling eager to try.

……………………

Two minutes later, the first car rushed out of the corner and headed straight towards the Twilight Pavilion. Then countless cars rushed out, blocking the surrounding area.

"Golden Castle, here I come!"

"It's really a golden castle... uh..."

People who jumped out of the car rushed over to embrace the great golden castle, but their excited smiles froze before they could fully bloom.

What's this?

Who can tell them...what is this?!

Up close, the cheap, fragile, and thin feeling of plastic paper that is completely different from real gold is more obvious, as well as the rough workmanship that cannot be concealed by the brilliant golden light.

Someone unbelievingly walked over and dug it with his fingers, and accidentally tore off a large piece of plastic paper. The clattering sound was very harsh, as if he was ruthlessly mocking everyone.

The reporters carrying cameras and microphones finally broke through the siege and rushed to the castle. Before they could turn on the cameras, they heard a series of curses in various Japanese dialects.

"asshole!"

"fraud!"

"Damn it!"

"Dirty stuff!"

"Who pulled the prank! Treating everyone in the world as idiots?"

"Damn it! I've been waiting at the foot of the mountain for more than ten hours!"

"I'm going to kill that guy!"

Amidst the commotion, the reporters looked up blankly and saw that the golden outer wall of the castle had been torn to pieces by the angry people. When they looked up, a large piece of plastic paper was blown up by the wind and swayed in front of everyone.

It floated over and covered the front of their car.

"Ah! Look! It's on fire!" someone shouted loudly.

The fire started from nowhere, and by the time it was discovered, it had spread over half of the wall, swallowing up the entire castle in an instant. Raging flames shot up into the sky, and the unpleasant smell of ignited plastic filled the air with black smoke.

Come.

The golden castle soon turned into an ugly black. On the mountain road a few kilometers away, people who were blocked halfway saw the flames and the Dusk Pavilion, which turned into black and gray after the fire.

Although they still don't know the truth, the strong yearning and curiosity in people's hearts seem to have been burned away by this flame.

"Hey, have you heard?" Someone shouted to the person next to him: "That castle is not made of gold at all, it is just covered with gold plastic paper! It's all a scam!"

"Really or not?"

"This fire...could it be that someone was too angry, so..."

"No way, who could do such a thing?"

“I don’t know if there is anyone there, please call 119 first!”

In fact, at this moment, the nearby fire alarm calls were almost overloaded. However, the mountain road was narrow, and the roads up and down the mountain were blocked. No matter how anxious the fire trucks were, they could not fly up, so they had to call in a fire helicopter.

Plane. By the time the fire was extinguished, the inside and outside of the castle had already been burned into ruins.

The visitors came with great pleasure but returned disappointed. The reporters could not interview the owner of the Golden Castle, so they randomly interviewed some passers-by and collected various angry expressions and words. They edited and broadcast them, and received laughter from many viewers.

.

As always, the police, who arrived belatedly, made an unexpected discovery - they found a charred corpse in the rubble. They thought it was the owner of the house, Da Shang Zhushan, who was unfortunately burned to death. Unexpectedly, after an autopsy, it was discovered that he died of poison.

Kill. So an Internet celebrity incident turned into a prank incident, then escalated into an arson incident, and finally turned into a murder incident. The whole incident seemed so confusing that even after a large number of brain cells were lost, the police still didn't know what happened.

Several detectives who attended the dinner were also questioned several times by the police. At first, they insisted that a large amount of gold was revealed after the paint peeled off the outer wall of the castle, but they only received ridicule and even abuse from others. Later, at the Metropolitan Police Department

Seeing the photos and videos taken by the visitors, the detectives unconsciously began to doubt their own eyes - was it really because it was too dark at the time that they saw wrongly?
To be continued...